1. to protect the health and ensure safety of workers and neighbourhood poplulations from industrial hazards and to prevent the occurrence of disasters such as the Bhopal Gas Disaster.
   
   The government of India must:
   
   
   • Prohibit production and usage of hazardous chemicals.
   • Make it compulsory for corporations to provide information on the production and potential dangers of hazardous substances to workers and neighbourhood communities.
   • Enable workers' unions and neighboarhood communities to take action against unsafe industries.
   • Keep strict watch on violations of laws relating to health and safety particularly in hazardous industries.
   • Take punitive actions against company officials responsible for violation of health and safety laws.
     
     
2. Preventive and regulartory measures must be taken internationally with regard to production, storage, transport and marketing of hazardous substance by multinational corporations.
   
   
3. Recommendations made by the International Medical Commission on Bhopal regarding health care and disease monitoring of the survivors of the disaster must be implemented by the government of India without delay.
   
   
4. The Government of india must meet set up a National Medical Commission on Bhopal for long term medical treatment, health monitoring and rehabilitation of the survivors. This Commission should include non-government professionals and representatives of survivor organisations along with government officials.
   
   
5. The Government must appoint a Commission of Inquiry to investigate into the problems faced by patients due to the incompetence of doctors, unavailability of medicines and corruption in the hospitals meant for the survivors. Representatives of survivors, organisations must be part of this Commission.
   
   
6. Union Carbide Corporation must furnish information on the long term health consequences of exposure to its poisonous gases including Methyl Iso Cyanate. Studies initiated by the Indian Council of Medical Research for long term medical surveillance must be continued for another fifteen years. Reports of medical studies carried out on survivors must be made publicly available.
   
   
7. Union Carbide Corportation must be stopped from selling off its shares in its Indian subsidiary under the pretext of financing a hospital in Bhopal. The Corporation and its officials must be made to present themselves in the Bhopal court to face ongoing criminal proceedings. The Government of India must take immediate action for extradition of the chief accused - ex-chairman Warren Anderson from U.S.A. Passports of the accused Indian officials namely Keshub Mahindra, Vijay Gokhale, Kishor Kamdar and J. Mukund must be confiscated.
   
   
8. Government of India must take remedial measure to minimize injustice, corruption and delay in the distribution of compensation. Suggestions put forward by survivors' organisations toward this must be implemented. The Supreme Court of India must reconsider the cases in which survivors have been wrongfully denied compensation by the Bhopal claim courts.
   
   
9. Government programmes for economic rehabilitation of the survivors must be resumed. The sewing centres for gas-affected women must be re-opened and survivors should be given employment in the Special Industrial Area. In the staffing of all medical care and rehabilitation programmes, priority should be given to survivors.
   
   
10. Union Carbide Corporation must decontaminate the ground water and soil in the vicinity of its Bhopal factory. The Government must ensure provision of safe drinking water, adequate housing and a clean environment to the survivors.
    
    
11. Advertisement of Union Carbide's products such as Eveready batteries by the Government controlled media must be stopped and there should be a ban on purchase of Union Carbide's products by Government agencies.

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